How to handle <br /> tags in Android

I've been searching for a while now onine and just havn't been able to nail the correct answer for this one. Long story short, I'm retreiving a webpage from onine to use as my inbox. I desperately need to skip lines in between each "message" so I put tags in my php. It works perfectly in a web broweser but, in my Android application, I can actually see the tags as plain text. Just trying to read them as "next/new lines". Any ideas?